I Live Peacefully in a Video Game World- Collected Poems

I Live Peacefully in a Video Game World occupies impersonal or passive forums such as comments sections, strategy guides, and video game patch notes in order to investigate the intimacy found within them. While conceptual poets have long explored hyper-contemporary communication ranging from spam emails to online reviews for Hollywood movies, these conceptual poets have often allothemselves to be constrained by their devotion to faithfully transcribing documents. The sections of this manuscript, then, are creative reimaginings of Youtube comments sections, strategy guides, and video game patch notes instead of precise transcriptions. This mixture of conceptual poetry and Prufrokian neurosis allow for an intense but sincere investigation of modern intimacy and antisocial behavior. The manuscript is mostly humorous but often with a political undertone. In I Live Peacefully in a Video Game World, it is hard to differentiate the innocent from the ominous. To live peacefully in a video game world is an act of futility given the violence and sexism of the modern video game industry. The poems of this collection, then, fight for stability in an inherently unstable universe.

Name thesis:degree_name

M.F.A. in Creative Writing

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

English

Year dc:date.available

2016

Author dc:creator

• Ardis, James

Contributors dc:contributor

• Ann Fisher-Wirth
• Daniel Stout
• Derrick Harriell

• Creative Writing

Repository record dc:identifier

https://egrove.olemiss.edu/etd/1248

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:egrove.olemiss.edu:etd-2247